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20 Self Exploration Exercises
20 Self Exploration Exercises
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Thea Westra
forwardstepsblog.com
20 Self Exploration Exercises
Use the following 20 self exploration exercises to help with moving forward
your life goals, with greater momentum.
Personal development and growth can happen by accident and does occur just
by participating in life and all its challenges. However, if you are reading this, I’m
assuming that you would like a little more deliberate input and would prefer not
to leave your self growth to chance.
Below are 20 self exploration exercises to present fresh ideas that could help
with getting you unstuck and moving forward with greater momentum. Many
will also give you further clarity for your life journey.
I am glad that I created this short list of 20 self exploration exercises for you, it
reminds me to get in and revisit some of those wonderful exercises, tools and
tips as well.
Enjoy exploring this handful of mini-tools and exercises for expanding your
awareness and raising the bar on what you are out to achieve in your life.
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1. This rst tool I think you'll love it as much as I do. Search in your browser for
"Letter To My Future Self" and you'll see a terri c tool to help with this exercise.
It will help you remember your dream. Here's how: Write down what you want
out of your life. Send it to yourself in the future. Start working towards your
dreams and read other people's dreams for inspiration. There's a check box
which allows your dream to be published anonymously. Your dream will be sent
to you on the date you nominated.
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4. Have you seen the movie The Bucket List? Go get a copy if you haven’t yet. My
friend and coach Grant Thorpe has a version of a bucket list, it’s a list of 100
things to try before you die. Simply search “Grant Thorpe 100 things to try
before you die”, and you’ll nd it easily. See how you go with his list (I got a score
of 55, yippee!), or create your own personal list and work your way through it. I
acted on a tip from an interview with Jeff Bezos. Jeff described his self-titled
“Regret Minimalization Program”. It goes like this: Imagine yourself aged 89,
looking back at your life. List everything you regretted not having done. The
next step Jeff took was the crucial one: Taking actions towards accomplishing
each. For him it was was establishing an internet business, Amazon!
6. What do you see around you, and what do you take on board emotionally,
when you say to yourself: I have no money? Try this at home! Look around your
home and say those words several times over. Do you notice what your mind is
picking up and tuning in to? Now, try the ip side of that exercise, allowing at
least ve minutes to just be with it. This time, walk around your home saying: I
am so wealthy. What did you notice? You can use that very simple exercise with
anything you like. Walk around for an afternoon, with the words: I am so alone.
Then try it differently, and this time repeating the words: I have so many
wonderful people sharing in my life. Consider then how else you use language to
interpret the things surrounding you each day. How do you think the cells of
your body might logically respond to the words: I am starving? What image does
that conjure? Would it cause a shift in the cellular and chemical response of your
body if instead, you were to tone that down, and use the words: I am hungry?
New words, new pictures, evoking empowering emotions.
8. Get yourself a jar and throw in a coin each time you sell out on yourself and
your dreams with an excuse. Donate toward having those things that are not yet
in your life because you’d excused or reasoned them away.
12. Write down a problem you want to solve or the question you want
answered. Be very speci c. Close your eyes and grab a book from your
bookshelf. Any book whatsoever. (Don’t despair if it is completely unrelated to
your question – that is often better). Randomly open the book to any page. Let
your nger run down the page to stop wherever you’d like. Read the section
your nger is pointing to. Make this answer the answer to your question. Figure
out how IT is the answer.
13. Carry a notebook with you to write down questions that come to mind.
Allow yourself to be OK with questions that are not answered. Sometimes we
just need to oat around with those for a while. There’s nothing like just the
right question at exactly the right moment to provide an “Aha!” moment. Use
these Forward Steps 49 Power Questions. You never know what answers may
pop up for you or which new ideas might spring from very honest responses to
those. “Our journey is to discover the questions that will enchant the answers
within us to come out dancing.” -Mary Marcdante.
14. Revisit your current goals and ask yourself for each, am I moving towards
something that inspires me or am I pursuing this goal to move away from an
undesired situation? One of these two choices brings with it much more power
and fun for accomplishing what it is that you’re actually seeking to achieve, from
your heart. As expressed by Abraham-Hicks, “Get so xated on what you want,
that you drown out any vibration or reverberation that has anything to do with
what you do not want.”
16. Cosmic ordering has been around in one form or another for years and I am
amazed at how it works. Here’s an experiment, when you desire something,
actually type or write it out. It then gets it from your head out into the world. No
matter how silly, grand, small, or impossible it seems, get it out of your head and
onto a public screen. Search online for “Steve Aitchison make a wish”. When
other people read your wish at his blog your thoughts are automatically merged
with theirs, in other words they are thinking about you, therefore strengthening
your wish. The more people that read the wish the stronger it gets. A word of
caution: be prepared for what you wish for. You have to think about the
consequences of your wishes and the wording of it.
17. Enjoy a feeling of writing your own cheque. Write your own cheque and
print it out. Place your personal cheque in a prominent position where you will
see it every day. You could even save it as a screen saver. Each time you look at
your cheque, believe and feel you have the money now! Search online for “Write
your own Abundance Cheque” and you will nd lots of tips or tools for this
exercise.
19. When you or someone else is faced with making a decision, check out the
effects, consequences and outcomes while exploring the overall. Here are four
questions to try. Ask them in the order presented. After asking each one, ask “…
and what else?” a few times over. Those four questions are: What will happen if
you do ‘X’? What won’t happen if you do ‘X’? What will happen if you don’t do ‘X’?
What won’t happen if you don’t do ‘X’? A couple look the same, they’re not (read
again)!
20. This is an exercise that you can apply to any area of your life whether that be
your job, business, body, family, income etc. Listen to the entire talk and then
take the action, of course! To do this exercise, search for “Zig Ziglar attitude
makes all the difference YouTube video”.
21. OK, here's an extra one for you. Take on the role of creator and paint a
masterpiece for your future. Each week, write a letter to the “future you” then,
the following year, re-read one of those letters. Read them once every week,
matching the previous year’s weeks.
If you know anyone who could use some of the ideas present in the list of 20 self
exploration exercises, then by all means share this ebook with them.
www.forwardstepsblog.com/20-self-exploration-exercises
Plus, of course, remember to try out this 5-step, easy method to transform any
situation, heal yourself, feel better fast, erase emotional blocks and even reduce
physical pain… in minutes.